Mailbag

Mailbag

Letters to Barron's about infrastructure, the Tea Party, business investment with government money, the coming end of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

August 17, 2013

Jeffersonian Prescription

To the Editor: Jim McTague's D.C. Current column of Aug. 5 ("How to Fix the U.S. Economy") was disappointing. His reference to the infrastructure spending this country so badly needs as "using tax dollars to fund what largely would amount to political patronage with some asphalt on the side" is astonishing, given the reports from civil engineers that regularly rate the condition of the roads and bridges in this country as below par and very much in need of repair and upgrading.